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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Long Gap

Wow I haven't blogged in a really long time. The Army moved us to Fort Knox, KY. Soon as we got here they decided they want to medically retire Michael. So they moved us here just to decide that they want Michael to retire out. So we are just sitting on pins we should know by the summer what they decided. It doesn't really bother us either way he only has a year left on his contract so we were planning on getting out in the summer of 2011.

Our kids are growing fast Broc will start preschool in 2 months. He and Peyton will be in separate classes but ride the bus and eat lunch together. He is really excited about it and can't wait to ride the bus. I am excited to only have Hunter for 16 hours a week. Utah State Health Department did Peyton's Autism test on old test forms so we have to get them all over. Its a good thing though now that is she has gotten older they can fit her into a specfic form of Autism. They are all very sure she has Asperger's Autism. Which is a very high functioning she just has social problems but is on the same par intellect wise as her peers. Hunter finally is suppose to be getting his shoulder fixed this summer. There going to add a bone graft onto his left shoulder's ball and joint to fill in where his bone just didnt grow for some reason. Hopfully the stem cells they add will help the graft grow with the rest of ball socket or else he will have to keep going in every few years to get more bone added. He wont be a football or baseball star but soccer is looking promising.

I still have 1 1/2 arms and no idea when there going to fix the problem from the car accident. It is getting really frustrating there are so many things I can't do and limitations when it comes to the kids that just annoy me to no end. All the muscles in my arm have gone to waste pretty much so I can lift a 3lb weight to shoulder length and you can easily see the exertion and trembling as my muscles try to hold that weight. All the surgeons who have seen me are all split half say I fractured my collarbone and need pins and plate to anchor to my sternum the other half think that half are quacks and say they dont know what is wrong. I stand in the middle just wanting someone to try something.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Moved

Well I decided 14 months in Utah was long enough. So I drove to TX and meet up with Michael (left the kids in UT) and we got the keys to our house and moved in! We got a house on base at Fort Hood. Its a 4 bedroom 2 and 1/2 bathroom house with a backyard and a living room as well as a family room. We decided to let the kids have the living room as there playroom. The kids have not seen the new house yet. We are unpacking and setting up everything before we leave back to UT to go get them and bring them to TX. Michael is resigning his contract with the Army for a few more years. While in he is going to the LPN year long training. Peyton will start her 2nd year of Special Education Preschool in a few short weeks. While we are here in TX she is going to go San Antonio and get seen by the institute the is one of the leading researchers for children with Peyton unique set of disorders. We are hoping that they will be able to give us some new information about her disorder, as well as new things to try to help her learn around her set of disorders. In other news I finally was allowed out of the my shoulder brace but still am not allowed to start physical therapy or really do anything with my arm or anything. They are still making up there mind about a 2nd surgery to fix my joint where the sternum and collarbone meet. After they figure that out they then have to figure out why I lose feeling in my whole shoulder they say it would have something to do with my spine and that would be a surgery of it own to fix that problem. So I have no idea when I will actually get to really use that arm as a normal person would use there arm. The longer this goes the longer it will be till my lawyer can settle with the people's insurance for the lady that so stupidly decided to not stop at the red light. They unfortunately said they can't settle till the Doctors say that this is the best my arm is going to be for the rest of my life and the Doctors are not ready to throw the towel in yet they keep making me do all these weird excersises hoping that it might help or they tell me to not use the arm hoping longer amounts of time without movement will make the problem correct itself. Its rather very frustrating and painful. I have to take sleeping pills now just so I can sleep cause the pain is enough to keep me awake at night. Currently my arm can only go to shoulder height in front of me and to my side I cant lift it over my head or behind my body. I am hoping with just having had the internet and everything setup and being in my own domain that I have more control over that my blogging skill will increase. I guess we shall see.

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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Its Been Awhile

Wow its been a long while since I have made a post on my blog. Needless to say things have been really busy.

At the start of May I had surgery to fix some damage from when I got rear ended in a car accident. My surgeon found out that I had fractured my collarbone and tore 2 muscles. I went 6 months with no one else being able to figure this out. So I got 3 pins put in my shoulder to fix my muscles. I was suppose to only have to wear a shoulder brace for a month then I would be able to start moving it some and do physical therapy. Its been almost 6 weeks since surgery and I am still wearing the shoulder brace. Since I fracture my collarbone and no one knew it cause they misread the xray CT scan and MRI it didnt set right next to my sternum so it has dislocated 3 times in the 6 months. So now I have to get another surgery now to fix my collarbone. I am very unhappy about this news. The kids and I were suppose to be moving to Fort Knox, KY so Peyton could start her second year of preschool and meet her new therapists. Now the children and I will be staying in Utah till Oct.

Peyton finished her first year of preschool and got a diploma. She had a lot of fun with her teacher and all the friends she had in class. She has at least another 2 years of preschool. Then she will have to do testing to figure out if she goes to regular kindergarten or a slowed down version of kindergarten. She is loving playing outside in her pool and watering all of the flowers outside. She has been workinghard and is starting to get good at making sentences when she is talking to us. She is also letting us know her feelings and finding ways to communicate them to us. She is been potty training the last 2 months. Sometimes she is good about it but most of them if we dont force her to the potty then she will just go in her underwear. Her doctors said it would be hard for us to train her that its just part of her developemental disorder and that we just have to keep working with her.

Broc is getting to be more aggressive in letting his sister know that she has made him mad. So he been in time out quite and few hundred times. He finally is staying in nursery all by his self. He will scream while I am leaving then he stops and either plays or goes to sleep. He is out growing his speech finally. With Peyton being behind in speech he mimic'd her but now he is outgrowing that and is adding words all the time. He is finally getting ready to potty train which is a good thing. He also notices so many things sometimes I have to remind myself that he will learn things faster or before Peyton. I am so use to working at Peyton's level that I forget that my sons are going to learn things easier and faster then she does. He is still in love with his cars. We think that he may be a Rugby player though. We were watching a movie called Forever Strong and he got so excited when they showed the boys playing rugby.

Hunter is so close to walking and he such a good talker. He can say mama dada broc peyton and hi. He is going to be turning the big 1 in a few weeks now. Hunter had to get switched to a bottle he fell off the growth chart so we have to feed him high calorie formula and add sugar and butter to the table foods he eats He has been on the fat boy diet for 3 months he is still off the chart but he is working on it. We also found out the Hunter has astma thankfully we didnt find out the hard way. He has to take medicine every day that helps keep his airway open. He hates and will scream the entire time he takes the breathing treatment. He had some good news though a new xray of his shoulder has shown growth in the bone which is good news. It isnt fully grown in yet but there has been some process. He also is finally sleeping through the night. He apparently likes a really soft bed. We folded up a huge king size comforter and put it in his crib and now he will sleep all night. Everyone in the house was so thrilled when Hunter finally started to sleep.

Michael is due home in a few weeks. He will be home for good from Afghanistan. The only down side his home is Texas and the kids and I will be in Utah till the Army moves him to KY. So he will still be gone but no one be trying to kill while he is in TX. He got the purple heart while he was he was out on a patrol. It was really scary cause it was the first time the Army called me and the lady was so uncalloused. It scared me when they asked me if I was my husband wife I grabbed the counter and braced myself I seriously felt my heart fall down to my feet and I didnt know if I could hold the phone to hear the news. Just for her to tell me that he burned his ear and got some bullet fragments in his leg. The funny thing was Michael already told me that he got hurt the Army was 3 weeks behind. So I thought that there were calling cause he died. So I will be much more relaxed when he is in TX. He is very excited though the kids and I bought him an iPhone for Father's Day. It will be able to hold his medical software on it and tons more. So I will be dropping it off to him when I drive his car down to TX to meet him off his plane.

So that is the last 2 months in a nutshell. I will post pictures soon my 1 terabyte hard drive died so yeah there went my picture my 90 gigs of iTunes and 500 movies and tv seasons as well.

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Michael went back to Afghanistan

So the last 2 weeks went by so fast but they were so fun. Michael came home on the 14th and he had to leave on the 25th. We had a lot fun getting to see him. The kids were a little shy when they first walked over to him but in a few minutes the shyness was gone and they were all over Daddy. The loved playing with Daddy and having him put them to bed. Broc was so happy I thought he might just keel over from being so happy that Daddy was home. While Michael was here his brother Sam got married and he was the best man and Peyton was yet again a flower girl. This was the 4th wedding she was the flower girl for. I think I should start renting her out to be a flower girl for weddings cause she has so much experience now. It was also Broc's 2nd Birthday while Michael was here we threw him a big Cars themed party and I made him a really cool cars cake. He got lots of.....Cars for his birthday. It was also Michael and my 5 year wedding anniversary I can't believe its been that long already. We upgraded our wedding rings and Michael got a Swiss Army Watch. Michael also got to bless Katie son Ace while he was home he thought it was a very enjoyable experience. Peyton was given a definitive diagnosis on having PDD-NOS which means Pervasvise Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. A big word which means she doesnt fall into just one category she falls into multiple things but not enough of one of them to be that one thing. They say that she will be in special ed for almost all of school. But they say as an adult she should be able to live on her own get married and have her own kids. They say its very rare for a child with PDD-NOS to grow out of there delays and problems. So she will always have it she will just have to learn and adjust around it. So she will start taking more Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy along with seeing a regular therapist to help her with coping and keeping her at a balance level. They are excited with the progress she has been able to make so far. They said they dont see any of the traits in our boys though which is good that means they won't have the same problem as Peyton. In other news Hunter is a crawling maniac now. We weren't suppose to let him learn but he figured it out and does a sort of Army crawl. He still favors is bad arm he doesnt put much weight on it with the funny crawl he does. He is also sleeping by his self almost. He is getting a little better about sleeping he can almost sleep for 4 hrs in his own bed before he comes into bed with me and bugs me all the rest of the night.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Meeting of the Minds

Michael is finally on his way home. He will get to be home for 2 weeks then he will have to go back to Afghanistan for another 2 months then he will come back for good. Then we will move back to TX where all are stuff is. I am excited I can't wait for him to be back for good. I miss having my own space.

Ace has been coming up to hang out and Hunter and Ace love to stare at each other they are going to be good friends when they get older. Peyton has some more testing to pinpoint where her delays are and how severe they are and how to help her with them. Broc 2nd bday is coming up and he is having a car themed party. He will also start getting all his shots now that he is 2. After Peyton started showing signs of delay we choose to forgo immunizing the boys till they were 2. In that short time things have changed. There used to be so many more shots when Peyton was the boys age but they cut out like 7 shots. So I think that regardless of the bull they push on immunizations not leading to autism or be harmful they must of not bought it themselves and cut back and changed the age on some immunizations.

Michael and I 5 year anniversary is this month as well. I still can't believe its been 5 years. It has gone by so fast. We are going to do sealing for the dead at the SLC Temple for our anniversary. I would tell you what I got him but he reads my blogs so then he would know so you will just have to wait till after the 20th.

It's been 3 months since my my car accident where I was rear ended when I was stopped at a red light. I am still fighting with the insurance company of the person who hit me. They are being cheap skates on paying me a fair value for my minivan. Also my attempts at finding a 2000 or higher in Land Rover Discovery II SE7 are still in vain. I looked at many who have problems with the shift differentals or engine problems. Then I looked at 2 worth buying but one guy just stopped answering my calls and the other family want more then it is worth. I am waiting cause I think the lady will cave cause no one else has made offers and with the economy no one is willing to shell out 6 grand. So I am hoping her desperation for the money will make her come down to what I am willing to offer her. I shall keep you updated on my process of finding a Land Rover. Thankfully the medical portion of my thing will finally settle. I have to have surgery to screw my muscles into my shoulder to fix my problem they also think there is tear in there that they wont be able to see till they cut my arm open. So needless to say my payout I have been told will be substantal due to the pain and the surgery. I havent been able to take anything to help with the pain the last 3 months due to breastfeeding Hunter. So my pain and sufferage will be high. I am hoping it high enough to payoff the loan on our 2007 Suzuki Forenza it is such a bad luck car. It has already had its tranmission and alternator replaced and still the radio doesnt work. There are also a few areas that still need to get painted because of accidents and stuff. I hate the car personally and I think it hates me too so I avoid driving it at all costs.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Broc Nudity Pants

So the other day I took the kids to Mc Donald's. Broc instantly ran to go play in the playplace. Since he is potty training he is wearing pull ups now instead of diapers. So 5 minutes go by and a little girl comes out of the playplace. She goes to her Mom and says "Mommy there is a boy naked in there." Next thing that happens is Broc comes sliding down the slide BUTT NAKED! He has a big grin on his face and starts running to go back into the playplace. The little girl was really distraught over Broc nudity and was complaining to her Mom. I on the other hand thought that was just so funny. I was curious how he didnt get a slide burn on his bum.

I saw Licia and Ellis tonight. They came over to have dinner with my husband's whole family. We played some Wii and caught up on the going on in everyone's life. She seems a bit quieter then normal but other then that she seems to be the same NayNay as always. Peyton was confused at first when she saw Licia and I standing together. She was unsure who was who.

Michael is due home for 2 weeks of leave in 3 weeks. I am so hoping that this leave doesn't get cancelled like all the other ones have been. Its been 8 months since I last saw him and I miss him so much. Lucky for us it is schduled for so he will be home for loads of stuff. His brother Sam is getting married. He is blessing Katie's baby Ace. He has to sit in the Eagle Nest for both of his brothers court of Honors. Then its Broc 2nd bday. Then our 5 year wedding anniversary. He is taking me to the SLC Temple. We are going to do some sealing for the dead. We havent done a sealing since we did our own. We just been doing endownments or the first part. I can't spell it and I dont want to butcher it. Then he will be here while Peyton finishes some medical testing. So he will be able to help me choose which type of treatment we think will be best for her. Then we have a parent teacher conference setup so we can talk to her teachers about what her doctors said. So he will be a busy guy.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

PDD pervasive developmental disorders

Finally an answer! Peyton had some testing done today and was observed. They are very sure that she suffers from PDD. She had an IQ test done today. Most of the areas she was tested on she was borderline to big delays. Then she surprised and astounded us all when she scored higher then her age group in Object Assembly. So we make a joke that Peyton is a savant. Peyton was able to assemble puzzle that children in her own age group would not have been able to assembly. Overall her scores follow. Verbal 14% Gross Language 18% and Perferomance 82% and Total her Percentalie to her age was 45%. Her overall IQ is 98. They think Peyton suffers from Sensory Overload where little things that most of us handle with no problem stress her out so much they cause a meltdown. They also believe she is color blind. Michael is red green and blue green colorblind. While it is very unsual to see a female colorblind they think that she just might be. They said if Peyton had been tested at an earlier age they would of marked her as being Severely Austism. They are excited and amazed by the strides Peyton has made in her own development. They said Michael and I must be doing a very good job with being able to balance her delays to her learning. In March Peyton will do more testing to find out her Sensory problems and then we will have all the tests done and the doctor will give us a answer and a list of treatments that might help her. So I am so excited and proud that Peyton has done so well and that she is continuing to do well of course we will never be able to overcome all her delays but we can learn how to help her learn and grow with her delays.

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